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I know we've had such a thread not too long ago, but my search-fu is apparently far too weak to find it.

Thread title made generic to hopefully make it useful for others to make requests and post recommendations.

My personal request:
I've really been in love with CBC Radio 3's podcast for listening to some great music, but lately I've really been in the mood for classical. A quick check on iTunes confirms that there are in fact Classical music podcasts, but was hoping there was someone that could steer me in the right direction.

Not long ago I listened to Ravel's "Miroirs" for the first time, and realized my exposure to and knowledge of "classical" music was severely lacking. Ideally, I'm looking for a podcast with a good selection of pieces (both classic and modern and less commonly heard sets) and instrumentation (not just all orchestral) as well as insightful commentary on each piece.

"Screw the speed of light, fan-boy rage is my new gold standard for measuring velocity." - Dr. J
"Lupus with a crowbar is the meaning of life itself." - Certis

This is Dan Harmon's tangent-filled, vodka-fueled comedy podcast that started as a weekly gathering of fans in an LA comic book store. He was doing these for about a year, but turned them into an official podcast after he got fired from Community.

There's a very Rat Pack vibe to the podcasts since they mostly involve Harmon and his co-host and improv comic Jeff Davis drinking Kettle One, riffing with the audience, doing spur of the moment raps about things he'd do to your mother, and playing Dungeons and Dragons on stage.

That's right. One episode he jokingly asked if there was a DM in the house and there was. Ever since then each episode includes a bit of an ongoing D&D campaign. Even better, he gets his guests like Greg Proops and Jason Sudeikis to play along.

Yonder wrote:

At this point striking the Pope once with a sword is a completely reasonable action.

So, while technically this is gaming related, I wanted to recommend the often excellent Econ Talk, a weekly economics podcast where the host Russ Roberts interviews a different guest each week.

I bring it up this week in particular since the guest is Valve's resident economist Yanis Varoufakis, and they talk about the corporate culture at Valve, the virtual economies of Steam, and bit on the European union problems at the end. If you've got an hour it's worth a listen.

Was coming here to post this (I wonder if maybe if this worth an xpost in the Gaming podcasts thread as well). A few mind-blowing statistics that Varoufakis threw out during the course of the interview:

1. Steam handles 70% of all online sales for all the publishers on Steam.
I feel like there's almost a way to work backwards from that figure and work out how much money Steam is making, given that a number of publishers on Steam are publicly listed companies who publish their revenue figures.

2. Steam has been growing at 30% - 50% every year since it launched.

3. Valve is adding between 30 - 40 people every year, and currently have 300 people working at the company (No idea if this is just hires or net of people being let go)

It's a show where each host brings a topic each week that is their current "thing." It's basically an excuse for Tom and Molly to get back together again and chat. The first two shows were pretty good... if not a little too self-indulgent, but fun nonetheless. Short and sweet at around 20 minutes.

If you were a fan of theirs from the Buzz Out Loud days, you should give it a try.

Hey guys, Season 4 of "Good Luck, Have Podcast!" has kicked off again. Although we didn't get Yasmine back, we did get a new guest, Kati, who is awesome and really funny. She goes over the do's and don't of a first date, and gives some solid advice. We're actually lining up a few more interviews on intro dating topics with different girls. Along with that, the whole premise of the season is self improvement, so finding things that will increase our value to the female world in the hopes of finally getting girlfriends. I think this is a great episode to start the show with, if you've never listened before. I've tried to limit my posts in this thread with only our best episodes (since I know y'all are busy). Please give this one a listen though!

This is Dan Harmon's tangent-filled, vodka-fueled comedy podcast that started as a weekly gathering of fans in an LA comic book store. He was doing these for about a year, but turned them into an official podcast after he got fired from Community.

There's a very Rat Pack vibe to the podcasts since they mostly involve Harmon and his co-host and improv comic Jeff Davis drinking Kettle One, riffing with the audience, doing spur of the moment raps about things he'd do to your mother, and playing Dungeons and Dragons on stage.

That's right. One episode he jokingly asked if there was a DM in the house and there was. Ever since then each episode includes a bit of an ongoing D&D campaign. Even better, he gets his guests like Greg Proops and Jason Sudeikis to play along.

Just came here to post about Harmontown. A friend of mine turned me on to it and I'm burning through episodes every day now. The DnD is loose and very very funny. Spencer, the DM they randomly pulled out of the audience, is an awesome straight man and doing a great job letting Harmon, et al. riff and blunder through the game. Greg Proops as Codeine the Unicorn is one of the funniest things I've heard in a long long time.

The show is a drunken, filthy, random-synapse-firing, stagger through the brain of Dan Harmon and guests. Good times.

I assume everyone here enjoys Wait Wait...Don't tell me! (if not, we couldn't be friends). But just in case you haven't heard, the live broadcast to theaters around the US is tonight at 8pm. I'm going to some random theater in the middle of Florida. Tickets on sale: http://www.fathomevents.com/#!wait-w...

Special Guest: Steve Martin!!!

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Let them eat gay wedding cake.

Reaper81 wrote:

I am half-gay on my mother's side but I ethnically self-identify as "closeted lumber mill worker."

For those of you who liked Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast, you'll be happy to know that he'll be starting up a new podcast in September called Revolutions. He's going to cover about 10 revolutions and cover each one in 12-15 episode chunks. He's confirmed that he's covering the English, American, French, Haitian, 1848, Mexican, Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions.

Yonder wrote:

At this point striking the Pope once with a sword is a completely reasonable action.

Anyone know of a good movie podcast? I'm looking for something that gives brief non-spoilery reviews of current films, and then dives a little deeper into a particular older film or film history discussion.

Anyone know of a good movie podcast? I'm looking for something that gives brief non-spoilery reviews of current films, and then dives a little deeper into a particular older film or film history discussion.

Anyone know of a good movie podcast? I'm looking for something that gives brief non-spoilery reviews of current films, and then dives a little deeper into a particular older film or film history discussion.

Adam Savage's podcast delves into this a little bit sometimes.

Basically, I guess I'm looking for the GWJCC of movie podcasts.

Ideas?

I'm a huge fan of the Quarter to Three Movie podcast. (Which is kind of funny because I find their Games podcast rather meh.) It doesn't fit your preferred format, though -- it's more of a deep dive on the film of the week, and then a long discussion of movies that fit a theme announced the week before, all marinated in a lot of in-jokiness. Spoilers are pretty well segregated, but I would recommend listening to it after you've seen a movie, rather than before.

It's Tom Chick at his Tom Chickest, so if you already know whether or not you enjoy him, this won't be any different.

Other than those two, I listen to The Golden Briefcase, which does three segments: the panels' picks of the week -- not necessarily recent ones -- trailer watch, and then a topic inspired by a recent release.

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

Anyone know of a good movie podcast? I'm looking for something that gives brief non-spoilery reviews of current films, and then dives a little deeper into a particular older film or film history discussion.

Adam Savage's podcast delves into this a little bit sometimes.

Basically, I guess I'm looking for the GWJCC of movie podcasts.

Ideas?

Spoiler:

I'd kickstart that by the way guys. Hint hint.

If you are not looking just for new movies.

Film Sack is a lot of fun. Some crap movie from the dollar bin at Wal-Mart of Netflix Streaming is watched and reviewed. Occasionally they will do a commentary track for such movies.

Hey guys, Season 4 of "Good Luck, Have Podcast!" has kicked off again. Although we didn't get Yasmine back, we did get a new guest, Kati, who is awesome and really funny. She goes over the do's and don't of a first date, and gives some solid advice. We're actually lining up a few more interviews on intro dating topics with different girls. Along with that, the whole premise of the season is self improvement, so finding things that will increase our value to the female world in the hopes of finally getting girlfriends. I think this is a great episode to start the show with, if you've never listened before. I've tried to limit my posts in this thread with only our best episodes (since I know y'all are busy). Please give this one a listen though!

Just started listening to Star Talk Radio which is an awesome science podcast hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (of course). What's really fun is that Neil will have one or two smart comedians on the show to keep it moving and lively as well as guest scientists. Really great stuff.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Let them eat gay wedding cake.

Reaper81 wrote:

I am half-gay on my mother's side but I ethnically self-identify as "closeted lumber mill worker."

And speaking of podcasts and zombies, I ran across this little gem over the weekend: We're Alive.

Yeah, it's more serialized fiction than a straight up podcast, but that doesn't change the fact that it's an awesomely entertaining story about the survivors of a zombie outbreak complete with cliff hangers and some edge-of-your-seat action.

I didn't see it suggested, but I just started listening to Sawbones, another podcast by the McElroy couple. I had my eye on it, because I loved the history of medicine course I took in first year (even tutored first years for it later). Only listened to the first episode so far and aside from an unfortunate segment with an atrocious "French accent" rife with stereotypes which would've had me facepalming had I not been driving, well aside from that, it's rather fun and informative. Definitely worth a try.